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Evolution

by S. Ugo Rosin

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1.
Another Drug 03:58
2.
Money 04:37
3.
Satanism 04:00
4.
No More Lies 05:01
5.
March 04:20
6.
Piano Slam 08:18
7.
Eclipse 1 03:04

about

Sometime early in 1988, I walked into my local import record shop and my friend who worked there immediately demanded I listen to a new 12" single that had just come in. It was something called Acid Tracks by a group called Phuture. I immediately noted a few things about this recording.

Firstly, it was very dry and crude. It sounded under produced, but there was also a strange distinctiveness to the sound that was so alien and "street". I recognized the sounds immediately because I was familiar with most Roland gear. The TR-707 drum machine and TB-303 Bassline Machine were incredibly distinctive sounds and pretty much all that was audible save for a bit of phased noise in the background.

I'd not heard anyone really use the 303 for several years since I'd seen one demoed in a music shop way back in 1982. They were something that was kinda forgotten at the time. Yet this sound and the way it was being used with the filters and resonance constantly being tweaked and manipulated was unlike anything I'd ever heard done with the instrument.

After that, I dutifully bought a copy of the record, brought it home and played it for my friends, who immediately thought it was crap. They didn't get it, but I quickly began to try to figure out what the secret sauce was in this thing and started to concoct my own attempts to emulate and expand upon it. I didn't have a 303 yet, so I did my best to use my Roland SH-1 mono-synth to a similar effect. The earliest results of those experiments are captured in this set of tracks, which were recorded throughout the latter half of 1988 and early 1989.

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released November 6, 2021

Conceived and executed by Stephen Ugo Rosin.

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